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If a U.S. attorney is talking to Musk like this, then he really is the president. “I ask that you utilize me and my staff…”

submitted 23 days ago • 134 comments

The first Senators to actually do anything about the Trump admin

submitted 24 days ago • 215 comments

Democratic lawmakers need to understand something: Imagine your house is on fire. Fire truck shows up. Firefighters get out. They look at the fire, then at you, and say: "Such a fire is a grave threat. This house will not sustain." And just stand there. This is how many of you are coming across.

submitted 25 days ago • 357 comments

According to Trump only two members of the Burger King Kid's Club deserve government jobs.

submitted 26 days ago • 25 comments

If a Democrat fired 100 FAA employees and put a freeze on hiring air traffic controllers 8 days before an airport plane crash, there would be a right-wing and media frenzy for weeks.

submitted 27 days ago • 292 comments

I’m not a brilliant political strategist but democrats might want to look at this one. I dunno. Could work? Nah, forget it. A strongly worded email and a fundraising text message should keep this from happening again.

submitted 27 days ago • 16 comments

i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there

submitted 27 days ago • 269 comments

A very good (but incomplete) summary of the shitholes that Trump pardoned and their ongoing legal woes. Two examples: Guy Reffitt is facing illegal silencer charges in TX and Jeremy Roberts was convicted of storing illegal weapons and classified docs in his FL home.

submitted 27 days ago • 24 comments

All departments were affected, including offices that address HIV and AIDS, infectious disease and child health.

submitted 28 days ago • 91 comments

If you’re a federal employee, you should know this is a lie. Congress hasn’t appropriated these monies and so it’s literally not there to be spent. Also, federal agencies are limited by law to a max $25K payout in the case of restructuring.

submitted 28 days ago • 178 comments

Neil Gorsuch's mother did something very similar in the early 1980s, and replaced them with people hand-picked by polluting industries. But then there was a Democratic Congress, which pushed back fiercely and she ended up being held in contempt of Congress and resigning in disgrace.

submitted 28 days ago • 9 comments

So apparently, two people making important decisions at the Office of Personnel Management are a 21 year-old and another that just graduated high school last fkn year. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 28 days ago • 68 comments

I know there’s a lot right now. But folks need to understand what this means. A suspension this long would mean people living with HIV lose their medicine for months. People around the world lose their PrEP for months, putting millions at risk of getting HIV. Drug-resistant strains could emerge.

submitted 30 days ago • 155 comments

The people now in charge of the Office of Personnel Management apparently don’t know how to scrub PDF metadata, and have exposed the original authors of the guidance they’re publishing. Two, Noah Peters and James Sherk, have links to the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025.

submitted 29 days ago • 220 comments

I’d been speaking w/ these researchers since the night of the Madison attack. That day, they quickly located the shooter in the online network they were tracking. We were writing THAT story this week. Then Nashville happened, and the researchers realized: another one.

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Trump Claims He Can Overrule Constitution With Executive Order Because Of Little-Known ‘No One Will Stop Me’ Loophole theonion.com/trump-c...

submitted 35 days ago • 397 comments

White House reporters are excited that after four years of boring interviews with subject-matter experts they now get the adrenaline rush that comes from the personal attention of a president who threatens to have them executed. www.cjr.org/political_pr...

submitted 35 days ago • 449 comments

Sergeant Gonell @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social sent me this picture. This is his call log. Each call is an automated Dept of "Justice" notification saying "The defendant you testified against is being released from the dept of corrections." Each defendant assaulted him.

submitted 36 days ago • 1921 comments

Somehow "Elon Musk Is a Genius" and "Elon Musk Doesn't Know How Hands Work" are being said by a lot of the same people

submitted 36 days ago • 97 comments

US median voters have wonderous minds

submitted 36 days ago • 330 comments

Shout out to the media who participated in the most obvious misdirection ever

submitted 36 days ago • 158 comments

The American refugee system, which Trump is dismantling, was put into place in response to America’s shameful failure to provide refuge to Jews persecuted by Hitler

submitted 36 days ago • 87 comments

All these women who turned in January 6 terrorists are in danger tonight

submitted 36 days ago • 397 comments

So, obviously this is wildly unconstitutional, but there are also a bunch of practical problems. What about kids abandoned or given up for adoption? What about kids whose father is either unknown or can’t be reached?

submitted 36 days ago • 15 comments

The vice-president a week ago. “Obviously.”

submitted 36 days ago • 267 comments

metaphor alert

submitted 37 days ago • 186 comments

By punishing the disaster victims?

submitted 38 days ago • 88 comments

They've gone from projecting the idea that dems would withhold aid from gop areas to imagining it happened while actually doing that themselves bsky.app/profile/atru...

submitted 42 days ago • 225 comments

Manhattan smog: fog + pollutants. From 1971-77, the Documerica project captured 20,000 images of America’s environmental impact. Explore these through the National Archives. The photo below is from Documerica—join the movement! Let’s not forget our past, or we’re bound to repeat it.

submitted 46 days ago • 166 comments

this choice of photos by the Carter Center is shadier than a Georgia peach tree in summer

submitted 47 days ago • 1937 comments

My father would womanize, he would start land wars with Denmark. He would make outrageous claims like claiming ownership of Greenland. Sometimes he would refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.

submitted 49 days ago • 113 comments

How does this bring down the price of eggs, bacon and gasoline, or improve health care, or even protect the border? Republicans are back to their old shenanigans of being more interested in fighting senseless culture wars than actually doing anything substantive to help the American people.

submitted 50 days ago • 5 comments

Apparently Zuck's public claims of bringing free speech back doesn't apply to his employees.

submitted 50 days ago • 21 comments

I knew Trump was racist, but I didn’t care until I learned he was racist against people like me.

submitted 50 days ago • 159 comments

are any of the “we support trump because he will keep us out of the wars” people talking about these plans to seize territory by force?

submitted 50 days ago • 424 comments

Sure is one way to write the headline for “refuses to rule out military force to annex territory belonging to a NATO ally.” Thanks NYT!

submitted 50 days ago • 18 comments

Donations to Biden's inaugural fund in 2021: Meta = $0 Tim Cook = $0 Sam Altman = $0 Google = $200,000 Amazon = $200,000 Donations to Trump's inaugural fund in 2025: Meta = $1,000,000 Tim Cook = $1,000,000 Sam Altman = $1,000,000 Google = $1,000,000 Amazon = $1,000,000 The oligarchy is here.

submitted 52 days ago • 745 comments

fascinating definition of freedom we've wound our way into here

submitted 54 days ago • 341 comments

"A set of security barriers that were installed in 2017 to prevent terrorist attacks along Bourbon Street were being replaced when a driver barreled down the city’s most famous thoroughfare hours into the New Year on Wednesday, killing 10 and injuring dozens." www.nola.com/news/traffic...

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

The woman who got mad & threatened Blue Cross Blue Shield over the phone got 100K bail. Man w/ the largest arsenal ever confiscated caught on tape saying “he was preparing to do something” get 25K bond.

submitted 56 days ago • 30 comments

""As Attorney General, I will not permit Oklahoma police officers to face criminal prosecution for conduct adhering to their training."" "Vu was hospitalized with significant injuries including an orbital fracture, neck fracture and brain bleed." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 57 days ago • 31 comments

Health insurers are increasingly interfering in care, an NBC News investigation has found. Doctors say the stakes are highest in cancer care, when delays can be the difference between life and death.

submitted 61 days ago • 117 comments

incredible things continue to occur among the nationalist populist right

submitted 61 days ago • 208 comments

If a Dem FCC commissioner had done anything even hinting at what Brendan Carr did in this letter, I guarantee that Brendan Carr would have freaked out and screamed about creeping authoritarianism.

submitted 64 days ago • 28 comments

Remember, we heard from multiple GOP House members that Gaetz bragged about a lot of this on the House floor. But they were still fine with him being Trump’s AG pick.

submitted 65 days ago • 49 comments

Pro tip: if you are a publicist - or really, in any line of work - do not write “You know we can bury anyone” in an email to your clients. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/21/b...

submitted 67 days ago • 68 comments